Private View: GOSHA OSTEROV | PLAY WORKS

Gosha Ostretsov is one of Russia's leading contemporary
artists. Since the late 1990's Ostretsov has been working on The New Government project, a parodic
Gesamtkunstwerk on the nature of power and despotism in post-Soviet Russia that
combines masks, painting, sports, text, fashion, advertising, photography,
performance art, video, comics, and other media to create a parallel world in
which "masked aliens" have taken over the world and, aided by a
compliant mass communications industry, rule it with an iron fist.

Collections:

The Zabludowicz collection

Saatchi Gallery, London

The State Tretyakov Gallery, novel trends department led by A. Yerofeyev,
Moscow,

The State Russian Museum, novel trends department led by A. Borovsky,
St.Petersburg